Johnnyboy69 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Hi all I created a website for a friend, she wants the website to show up when searched in search engines such as google. I did use some online help, but I want to make sure. What exactly does one need to add to ensure that your site will show in search engines? As far as I know you just need ti add meta keywords in the head tag? Heres what I did: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Ardour Graphics for all your Graphic and web design needs."> <META name="keywords" content="Ardour Graphics, Graphic design, photography, web design, somerset west, stellenbosch"> I have heard from a friend that search engines such as google, take a while to process and catagorize your website accordingly, which, according to that friend, is why my site isn't showing even if I google the exact keywords. I know this is a pretty lame question, but I just wanted to be entirely sure instead of waiting for a month so that google will apparently organize it, just to find out I did something wrong. I also understand that getting high rankings is a lot more than just meta tags, but I just want the site to show if you search for it so specifically. Can anyone tell me if all that including the google thing is correct and if not please explain to me the meta tag system? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/250894-noob-question-meta-tags/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaythMistwalker Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Google and other search engines have to crawl your site before they will be added to the search engine. A way to speed this up with google is sign up for a web-masters account and manually add your site. However, if there are other websites with your keywords they could be higher rank than yours. Another way to get your site crawled faster is make sure there are links to the site on other sites that google already indexes (since google goes to sites regularly it checks every link it finds) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/250894-noob-question-meta-tags/#findComment-1287240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyboy69 Posted November 11, 2011 Author Share Posted November 11, 2011 Ah I see, thanks So my meta tags are correct? Except for being able to use better keywords etc. How long more or less would you say does it take google on average to crawl a site, without signing up etc? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/250894-noob-question-meta-tags/#findComment-1287282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyKay47 Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 this "cheat sheet" should be helpful to you. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/250894-noob-question-meta-tags/#findComment-1287383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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